Who should take this course?
This course is aimed at system administrators and engineers.
Training plan
Introduction to vSphere and Software-Defined Data Center
- Describe how vSphere integrates with software-defined data centers and cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPU memory, networks and storage
- Use the vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Compare version 14 virtual machine hardware with previous versions
- Compare version 14 virtual machine hardware with previous versions
- Compare the types of virtual disks supplied
- Identify the advantages of ESXi fast startup
Creating virtual machines
- Create and delete a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware tools
- Describes how to import an OVF virtual application template
- Managing Vmware tools
- Explain OS installation troubleshooting and VMware tools
vCenter Server
- vCenter Server architecture overview
- Discuss how to communicate ESXi hosts with vCenter Server
- Identify vCenter services, components and modules
- Accessing and configuring the vCenter Server appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage vCenter Server inventory
- Describe the rules for applying permissions
- Creating a custom role in vCenter Server
- Create a backup schedule
- Restore vCenter Server appliance from backup
- Monitoring the vCenter Server appliance
Configuring and managing virtual networks
- Describe, create and manage standard switches
- Configuring switch security and load balancing strategies
- Contrast and compare distributed and standard switches
- Describe virtual switch connection types
- Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
- Using VLANs with standard switches
Configuration et gestion du stockage virtuel
- Présenter les protocoles de stockage et les types de d’architectures de stockage
- Présenter les hôtes ESXi via iSCSI, NFS et le stockage Fibre Channel
- Créer et gérer VMFS et les datastores NFS Décrire les nouvelles fonctionnalités de VMFS 6.5
- Avantages du SAN virtuel
- Décrire le cryptage des fichiers des machines virtuelles
Virtual machine management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modifying and managing virtual machines Cloning a virtual machine
- Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14
- Delete virtual machines from vCenter Server inventory and datastore
- Customize a new virtual machine by customizing specification files
- Enhancing vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Create, clone and export vApps
- Present the different types of content libraries, how to deploy and use them
Resource management and monitoring
- Introducing virtual CPUs and memory concepts
- Describe memory over-allocation and resource competition
- Configuring and managing resource pools
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Use various tools to monitor resource use
- Create and use alarms to report on certain conditions or events
vSphère DRS
- Describe the features and benefits of the vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster View DRS cluster information
- Configure Affinity virtual machines, DRS groups and Affinity rules on the host VM
- Delete a host from a DRS cluster
vSphere Update Manager line
- New vSphere Update Manager architecture, components and capabilities
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi, virtual machines and VMware Appliances
- Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
- Creating baselines
- Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
- Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS
- Scan and correct hosts
vSphere HA and line fault tolerance
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Using vSphere HA advanced settings
- Reinforce infrastructure or intra-app dependencies during changeover
- Describing the Network Heartbeat and the Datastore Heartbeat
- Introduce the features and functions of vSphere fault tolerance
- Make fault tolerance available on virtual machines
- Support fault tolerance interoperability with virtual SANs
- Examine fault tolerance improvements for virtual machines
- Overview of vSphere replication features and functions